Following up on this now deleted tweet:
Starting with this CBS News reporter, whose Twitter bio says she's an "unrepentant candy corn apologist" and "Cheez-Its stan", showing I guess that she's not afraid to make the tough calls:
That's what's wrong with political journalists. It's all a sport to you; of course Yankee fans can be friends with Red Sox fans. You have no understanding that political issues are life and death to some people, especially in the violent era of Trump.
— Intimidating Smirk (@Yastreblyansky) July 26, 2021
They're the same as the people who stopped European Jews from getting off the boat in Florida in 1940, or brought picnic lunches to lynchings.
— Intimidating Smirk (@Yastreblyansky) July 26, 2021
If so, you're voting to kill people. I can't understand the attitude that doesn't take these matters seriously.
— Intimidating Smirk (@Yastreblyansky) July 26, 2021
I had a lot of intellectual trouble with that survey result, anyhow.
Do Democrats and Republicans mean the same thing by "many" and "few"? Do they have the same concept of a normal number of friends to compare it to?
— Intimidating Smirk (@Yastreblyansky) July 26, 2021
Nearly 50% of Americans now say they have less than four "close friendships.”
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) July 25, 2021
In 1990, just 27% said the same.https://t.co/nmYCi3alhB pic.twitter.com/WbLnvcv5yl
I know I should look at the report myself, but is there a breakdown by party of the figures for total number of friends?
— Intimidating Smirk (@Yastreblyansky) July 26, 2021
There is not, at least not yet; data for this survey (May 2021) is not online yet. So who knows?
That's my problem too but you put it a lot more concisely.
— Intimidating Smirk (@Yastreblyansky) July 26, 2021
The same goes partially for white city dwellers. I hardly know any Republicans who live in NYC, I know some in Jersey and upstate but don't see them often (during pandemic not at all), let alone friends properly speaking.
— Intimidating Smirk (@Yastreblyansky) July 26, 2021
It's the kind of poll that David Brooks gets all worked up over, and I'm not sure it means anything at all.
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